Surviving Coincidental History: First edition (Hadal One)

After migrating to Australia with his family from the UK at the age of 14, JJ Paterson embarked on the school of life. Eventually becoming involved in the offshore gas industry as a commercial diver, then a licenced rigger, crane operator and pile barge foreman. With enough money saved, JJ quit working offshore to realise a long-held goal with the purchase of a local music bar and becoming a publican. Unfortunately, years later, the sale of the bar dissolved into a protracted legal nightmare and then fate threw him a curve ball. With little cash and few options, JJ accepted a job as delivery crew on a 17m yacht located in Singapore and bound for Western Australia. What follows is probably best described as a story that had to be told.